Posted on 12/21/2010 10:53:50 AM PST by Nachum
On Tuesday's CBS Early Show, substitute co-host Russ Mitchell announced that "the lame duck session of Congress could hand President Obama yet another victory" with possible passage of the START nuclear arms treaty. Moments later, Mitchell declared that "The President seems to be on a hot streak." Mitchell got analysis from Republican strategist Dan Bartlett and Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons. Bartlett hardly offered an opposing viewpoint, as he completely agreed with Mitchell's assessment of Obama: "It's a great streak he's on. He's on a hot streak...
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Democrats in the House tell Obama to shove the tax bill where the sun don’t shine and that is a victory?
If that is the case,Bill Clinton’s sploog on a blue dress while receiving oral sex is the biggest fashion accessory of the last twenty years.
Seems like the only thing the Republicans thought worth fighting tooth and nail for were the Bush tax rates. After that, they’ve pretty much laid back in their hammocks and ceded everything to Obama.
Victory for Hussein = defeat for America.
‘First time I’ve ever heard a lame duck commie lib Congress referred to as a “hot streak”. That’s weird.’
“The Principles of Newspeak” (Orwell)
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html
Newspeak was the official language of Oceania, and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication, either in speech or writing. The leading articles of the Times were written in it, but this was a tour de force which could only be carried out by a specialist, It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050. Meanwhile, it gained ground steadily, all party members tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their everyday speech. The version in 1984, and embodied in the Ninth and Tenth Editions of Newspeak dictionary, was a provisional one, and contained many superfluous words and archaic formations which were due to be suppressed later. It is with the final, perfected version, as embodied in the Eleventh Edition of the dictionary, that we are concerned here.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of IngSoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever.
To give a single example - The word free still existed in Newspeak, but could only be used in such statements as “The dog is free from lice” or “This field is free from weeds.” It could not be used in its old sense of “politically free” or “intellectually free,” since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispenses with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum. Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it, though many Newspeak sentences, even when not containing newly created words, would be barely intelligible to an English-speaker of our own day. Newspeak words were divided into three distinct classes, known as the A vocabulary, the B vocabulary, and the C vocabulary. It would be simpler to discuss each class separately, but the grammatical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted to the A vocabulary, since the same rules held good for all three categories.
...wait a minute... No I wouldn’t!
I look forward to a big one in 2012...
Exactly! The RNC called for a donation yesterday and tried to tell me I needed to give so they could stop Obama. I told them I’m not giving them a penny - if I give, I’m giving to individual candidates. The woman got very angry and argued with me saying we all needed to stay together or we’ll lose. I told her I agreed but that the RNC needed to get on board with their constituents instead of expecting us to follow them. The became very angry and asked if I could just give $40 or even $20 to support them and I told her no, wished her a Merry Christmas and hung up! Hopefully, I’m not the only one they’re hearing this from.
It’s disgusting how the ENTIRE MSM has run with this “0bama is getting things done” narrative. Even a blind person can see through it as an organized propaganda campaign. They are trying to salvage his slumping approval ratings.
Correction: “Hollow” victories. He wanted the Omnibus bill badly and didn’t get it. Whatever else he he “got” will be undone.
“Row hard and live” - Hägar the Horrible
ALL IS WELLLLLLLLLL!!!
Exactly. They had the votes 2 years ago to easily pass this stuff.
As the Republicans AGAIN collapse like a house of cards because they are afraid of being called names by people who hate them.
So if the Dems had won in November, then they would have done all this and worse all next year, plus all of the porkulusII.
The problem here is more that lame-duck sessions coupled with a vindictive outgoing party can do nasty things in our system.
Don't forget the vindictive RINO socialists that happen to be ubiquitous in the Republican Party.
I’m honestly a little surprised that the ‘lame duck’ hasn’t been far worse.
Reminds me of Clinton when he was bitchslapping Newt and the boys silly starting in 95.
Same here. I was fully expecting them to try to jam cap and trade and card check through.
That’s not what I’m saying. I voted all republican in Nov, and things would be worse next year if we hadn’t won, but I truly believe we could have won more senate seats if the republican party had supported the conservative candidate. If the party had supported O’Donnell and Rease, there’s a good chance they would have won and would be active votes now since those seats were for unexpired terms. What did we gain by having the party support Murkowski instead of Miller? Will the party support Snowe and Collins and Bennett? I think they will. What good is it if we have the majority if we can’t keep our members from voting against our interests?
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